The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-05
LAST OF THE 49ERS.
The Adjournment of Congress
ON Friday at Noon.
A LESSON FOB THE FUTURE.
Important Measures Failed Through
Lack of Time-Others Rushed by
the Conferences-Other Notes.
SENATE.

WAsHNGToE, March 4.-Tbis morn
ing at 5 o'clock, Plumb, from the con-
ference committee on the District o
Columbia appropriation bill, reported
that the committee had been unable tt
agree. He moved that the Senate in
sist on its disagreement and ask fur
Their conference. So ordered. .
He also presented the conference re
port on the bill for the relief of settlers
and purchasers of public lands in Kan
sas and Nebraska. Agreed to.
Also the conference report of the post
office appropriation bill, the Senate re-
ceding from the subsidy for mail
steamer service to South America
Agreed to.
The deficiency bill being again taken
up, an item Con motion of Dawes wa;
inserted to pay to the Choctaw Indians
So, 858, 900, the amount of the judgment
of the Supreme Court at the October
term, 1886 Finally the bill and amend.
ments were reported to the Senate.
On demand of Mcpherson the yeas
and nays were taken on one of the Pa
cihc Railroad amendments, and it was
agreed to-yeas 81, nays II. The yeas
and nays were also taken on an amend
ment for the French spoliation claims,
and it was agreed to-yeas "a, nays II
Morgan moved to insert provision
for fifty copyists for the pension Office
and made an affecting appeal on behalf
of many respectable, educated, but poo I
women who are seeking government
Employment in Washington, but cannot
get it under the civil service rules.
After discussion the motion was laid
on the table-yeas 81, nays 16.
Finally, at Is o'clock, the bill was
passed and message to that effect was
sent to the House.
Allison presented the conference re-
port on the legislative, executive and
judicial bill, an agreement being
reached on all points except as to clerks
to Senators. He moved that the Senate
insist. So ordered.
Other House bills were then taken
from the calendar and passed, of minor
importance.
The Senate, at 6 am, went into secret
ses ion.
The doors were reopened at 10 am,
the Senate having in the mean.
while taken two hours recess. The
first business done was the presentation
by Plumb of the conference report on
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill. The report was read and agreed
to.
The next business was the presenta-
ton by Dawes of the conference report
on the fortIication bill. 1t was that the
conferees had not been able to agree.
Dawes said it was with infinite regret
that the Senate conferees we're obliged
to make this report. They had con-
ceded very much in order to reach a
conclusion, and to save the essence and
vitality of the measure needed
to protect the coast Notifications.
The plan which they had sub
mitted to the committee was expressed
in the form of bill which he would
have printed in the Record and along
with which he would have printed the
plan submitted at the last moment by
the House conferees. The country
would Judge between these propositions
and decide where the blame lay for the
failure by this congress to do anything
towards the inauguration of some eff
fcient system for forti6catioDsf eThe
irreconcilable differences between the
Senate managers and the House man
ayers was on the question of purchas-
ing steel for the purpose of making steel
guns of the highest type. The question
might be summed up in one sentence,
whether steel guns should be sub
ordinated to cast iron guns.
Hawley, another of the conferees.
said he desired to emphasize this most
extraordinary condition of affairs
There was no fertilization bill for the
current year nor for Rext year. So far
as concerned the army, coast defenses
and heavy guns, nothing whatever had
been done. There was no money to cut
the grass. along the globe of the forts or
to buy shingles or nails for old sheds
and dwellings of the forts; not one
solitary cent. Work was stopped and
all properly at those forts was left to
rack and ruin for the coming two years.
The simple statement of that fact was a
most extraordinary indictment of some
body. He has no doubt, whatever, that
if the whole subject could have been
left open to the full and free delibera-
ton of Congress, something would have
been done which would have been a
credit to the country. So far as the
Senate was concerned, the Record would
show that the debates and votes n
both sides of the chamber had been
fully up to the popular demand.
Just before the adjournment, the en-
rolled District of Columbia appropria-
ton bill was passed and sent to the
President for his signature. but the
conference report on the deficiency bill
was too late to be reported and died.
a resolution of thanks to the presid-
ing officer was adopted and after re-
port had been received from the Pres
ident stating that he had no further
communication to present, the Senate
was declared adjourned.
HOUSE.